Our Sorrow

In front of the lake house
someone has drowned
and drowned again

and even his bones have sunk
and drowned.

It is all in the ugly past
where bones made soup
and soup made do

and everyone went to bed
weak and feral.

A special disease
makes sponge of your skeleton.

Soak up the lake water
soak up the muck.

It’s all the same to us.

 






Danielle Pafunda's books include Manhater (Dusie Press Books), Iatrogenic: Their Testimonies (Noemi Press), My Zorba (Bloof Books), and the forthcoming Natural History Rape Museum (Bloof Books 2013). She teaches at the University of Wyoming.